Evacuation from a classroom considering the occupant density around exits

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 388, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1921-1928

  Liu, Shaobo ^a   Yang, Lizhong ^a   Fang, Tingyong ^a   Li, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Cellular automaton; Evacuation; Experiment; Occupant density

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; EXPERIMENTS; ROBOTS;

EVACUATION; EVACUATION EXPERIMENT; EVACUATION MODELING; EVACUATION PROCESS; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; MODIFIED MODEL; OCCUPANT DENSITIES; SPATIAL DISTANCE;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 60349099148     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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